Best known for almost upsetting Istabraq in the 2001 December Festival Hurdle, Bust Out ran another JP McManus-owned big name, Le Coudray, to half a length in the Denny Gold Medal Novice Chase last month.

38 Vasari in 1568 (Vasari-Barocchi, 4:1800), says the bust was undertaken by Michelangelo at Donato Giannotti's request for Cardinal Ridolfi, but does not give its location; he seems to have seen it, since he describes "certe minutissime gradine" on the head.

A team led by Dr Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school, discovered a detailed stone carving that differs from the external stucco face when they performed a computed tomography, or CT, scan on the bust.

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